Feb. 12, 1972:
Rep. Wilbur Mills (D-Ark.), chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, announces his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Although Mills will never make any headway in the primaries — his best showings were a fourth-place finish in New Hampshire and Massachusetts — he nonetheless will remain a candidate until the third day of the Democratic National Convention in July.
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